DIVINE DELIVERANCE
Genesis 19:12-20
Stephen Whitney
No one imagined that Charles Dutton would have achieved anything, for he spent many years imprisoned for manslaughter. But when someone asked this now-successful Broadway star of The Piano Lesson how he managed to make such a remarkable transition, he replied, "Unlike the other prisoners, I never decorated my cell." In his mind he had determined not to think of his cell as home.
For Christians, "This world is not my home, I am just a passing through, my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. And I can't feel at home in this world anymore."
Alexander Whyte - "Why did a man with a beginning like Lot, and with past experiences like Lot, why did he not rise up and leave a life, and a neighborhood, and an occupation and a companionship out of all which so much danger sprang? The reason was that he had invested in Sodom. He had invested money, and he had embarked himself and his household in the land around Sodom, in the produce of Sodom and in her splendid profits."
English poet William Wordsworth (d. 1850) - "The world is too much with us."
FAILED TO RESPOND :12-14
The angels wanted to bring out as many people as they could save.
Anyone who was related to Lot might be willing to leave.
Ezekiel 33:11 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back
turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die.
:13 Angles - are messengers send from God to give a message from God and are also agents used by God to bring punishment.
Outcry - Heb. usually used of someone in distress like the Israelites in Egypt, but here of the evil which the people were doing that cried out to God for punishment. There comes a point when the wickedness of man is so evil that God decides to send judgment like he did in the days of Noah. Gen. 6:5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of ...
Genesis 19:12-20
Stephen Whitney
No one imagined that Charles Dutton would have achieved anything, for he spent many years imprisoned for manslaughter. But when someone asked this now-successful Broadway star of The Piano Lesson how he managed to make such a remarkable transition, he replied, "Unlike the other prisoners, I never decorated my cell." In his mind he had determined not to think of his cell as home.
For Christians, "This world is not my home, I am just a passing through, my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. And I can't feel at home in this world anymore."
Alexander Whyte - "Why did a man with a beginning like Lot, and with past experiences like Lot, why did he not rise up and leave a life, and a neighborhood, and an occupation and a companionship out of all which so much danger sprang? The reason was that he had invested in Sodom. He had invested money, and he had embarked himself and his household in the land around Sodom, in the produce of Sodom and in her splendid profits."
English poet William Wordsworth (d. 1850) - "The world is too much with us."
FAILED TO RESPOND :12-14
The angels wanted to bring out as many people as they could save.
Anyone who was related to Lot might be willing to leave.
Ezekiel 33:11 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back
turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die.
:13 Angles - are messengers send from God to give a message from God and are also agents used by God to bring punishment.
Outcry - Heb. usually used of someone in distress like the Israelites in Egypt, but here of the evil which the people were doing that cried out to God for punishment. There comes a point when the wickedness of man is so evil that God decides to send judgment like he did in the days of Noah. Gen. 6:5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of ...
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